> > I'm only partially interested in the thread "Cooling vs HW replacement" but
> > the problem with drive failures is a real pain for me. So, I thought I'd
> > share some of my experience.
>> i'd add 1 or 2 cooling fans per ide disk, esp if its 7200rpm or 10,000 rpm
> disks
I'm pretty dubious of this: adding two 50Khour moving parts to
improve the airflow around a 1Mhour moving part which only dissipates
10W in the first place? designing the chassis for proper airflow
with minimum fanage is obviously smarter and probably safer.
> - if downtime is important, and should be avoidable, than raid
> is the worst thing, since it's 4x slower to bring back up than
> a single disk failure
eh? you have a raid which is not operational while rebuilding?
> - raid will NOT prevent your downtime, as that raid box
> will have to be shutdown sooner or later
> ( shutting down sooner ( asap ) prevents data loss )
huh? hotspares+hotplug=zero downtime.
but yes, treating whole servers as your hotspare+hotplug element is
a nice optimization, since hotplug ethernet is pretty cheap vs
$50 hotplug caddies for each and every disk ;)
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